Adams wants feds to probe vandalism of George Floyd statues ahead of Chauvin fate

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams called for federal authorities to investigate the vandalism of George Floyd statues in both Brooklyn and New Jersey on Friday, just hours after they were defaced with slogans from a notorious white supremacy group — and before the afternoon sentencing of the ex-cop who was convicted of his murder.

Both edifices honoring Floyd — whose videotaped murder by a then-Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, shocked the nation — had just been recently installed in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood and outside City Hall in Newark. “Just days after its unveiling on Juneteenth, and a day before the sentencing of Floyd’s murderer, this defacing that appears connected to a White supremacy hate group may have been an attempt to strike terror into our community — and it should be investigated accordingly,” said Adams, the front-runner in the recently completed Democratic mayoral primary, in a statement released by his government office.